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I read somewhere that David Batty always liked the name Digital Precision which was why when the name became available he took it, perhaps just for personal reasons.

RWAP wrote:Does anyone have:

a) A scanned manual for Desktop Publisher
b) A better scanned manual for Desktop Publisher Special Edition (and the software)?
c) A better scanned manual for Professional Publisher?

I've got the disk based manual for "Professional Publisher DTP System". That came with DP's "The Collection".

Though, I suspect that's not the one you want.

Martin_Head wrote:

RWAP wrote:Does anyone have:

a) A scanned manual for Desktop Publisher
b) A better scanned manual for Desktop Publisher Special Edition (and the software)?
c) A better scanned manual for Professional Publisher?

I've got the disk based manual for "Professional Publisher DTP System". That came with DP's "The Collection".

Though, I suspect that's not the one you want.

Hmm yes we need the manual - the problem is that it will be in Perfection format - it needs converting to PDF - I know you can do it via QPCPrint, but I am not sure if that will create a searchable PDF ...

RWAP wrote:

Martin_Head wrote:Hmm yes we need the manual - the problem is that it will be in Perfection format - it needs converting to PDF - I know you can do it via QPCPrint, but I am not sure if that will create a searchable PDF ...

With a suitable PDF printer driver (freePDF or similar), every text based output gives a searchable PDF .

That is not necessarily so - hence the problem with the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Text87 adds mico adjustments between each letter, so for example,

"This is a line"

becomes
"T h i s i s a l i n e"

So searching for "line" would not find it!

Not sure if Perfection's output does anything similar.

Hi,

The manual could be saved as ASCII Text and imported into LibreOffice, reformatted and saved as PDF, which is searchable.

If you want I can do this.

RWAP wrote:Text87 adds mico adjustments between each letter, so for example,

"This is a line"

becomes
"T h i s i s a l i n e"

So searching for "line" would not find it!

Not sure if Perfection's output does anything similar.

I know, but is this also with only left justified text? l+r justified ok.

Anyway, simply testing, Perfection, the doc and a PDF driver for Windows with QPC+QPCprint. Which is easier ?

NB: I had a look at QPLQ from TT. This put every character separately on the paper (to give justified text with non-proportional Epson fonts) but the PDF is searchable:

RWAP wrote: Hmm yes we need the manual - the problem is that it will be in Perfection format - it needs converting to PDF - I know you can do it via QPCPrint, but I am not sure if that will create a searchable PDF ...

Bit of a roundabout solution, but you could print out the manual from Perfection, and then scan it into a word processor with an OCR reader. Proof read/re-format, and then save it as a PDF

OK so who is going to volunteer to do this - instead of everyone seeming to think that I will do it....

I am not familiar with the software but did anyone check with a hex editor that the ASCII is not just sitting there in an easy to filter/extract form?

G